506069Even in death, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who, alongside Bob Marley and James Brown, electrified the world with explicitly anti-establishment and unapologetically ghetto-inspired black music, is still making waves. A tribute to the fallen revolutionary...

506089Joseph Kony could have been sent packing from the northern Uganda but this did not stop his Lord’s Resistance Army from showing its ugly head in South Sudan, DR Congo and Central African republic. As AFRAN/AMIN NASSER writes, a walk through Kon...

5060100Together, they cut the image of four innocent youths—only until they narrated how they planned and executed the bomb attacks that left 76 people dead in Kampala last month.Paraded before journalists in Kampala yesterday by military intelligenc...

MAURITANIA'S GOVERNANCE EPITOMIZES a cycle all too evident throughout sub-Saharan Africa. A civilian government, espousing the liberal democratic principles inherited from the colonial regime, came to power on the eve of independence. After it had r...

 Iran's leading automaker, Iran Khodro, has unveiled its fourth domestically-built car — dubbed Dena — which will hit the markets in April 2012.Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines Ali Akbar Mehrabian told Press TV on Saturday that the ...

       Horn of Africa: The main traditional dishes in Eritrean cuisine are tsebhis (stews) served with injera (flatbread made from teff,[1] wheat, or sorghum), and hilbet (paste made from legumes, mainly lentil, fab...

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50015 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iranians have shown the world how to fight against terrorism.He made the remarks in his address to the local residents of this southern provincial capital city where he is visiting during the ...

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50025 AfranTehran, March 31, IRNA – Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, heading a delegation, departed Tehran for Algiers on Wednesday morning.The visit aims to expand bilateral ties with Algeria.During the visit, the Iranian delegation is to prepar...

Sénégal 50427 Manifestation contre le Monument de la renaissance AfricaineL’opposition marche contre « la statue »La manifestation organisée le samedi 03 avril dernier par la coalition des partis de l’opposition du Sénégal et des membres de...

50042 AfranTehran, April 9, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Friday that Iran is against nuclear bomb.Addressing the Fourth National Nuclear Festival, President Ahmadinejad said those seeking nuclear bomb are against human logic.“W...

Sénégal-50429Sommet du G 15 le 15 Mai prochain à TéhéranAbdoulaye Wade invité du Président Mahmoud AhmadinejadLe chef de l’Etat du Sénégal, Me Abdoulaye Wade a fait part lors du dernier Conseil des ministres, jeudi dernier, de l’invitation...

50059 AfranSpeaking at Tehran's nuclear disarmament conference, Secretary of the IRI Supreme Council of National Security Saeed Jalili said the world was eager to know whether the US and its allies were not able to fight terrorism or didn't want to."If...

50069 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is in Kampala on an official visit, said certain powers, with the motto of non-proliferation, want to deprive nations of their right to gain access to nuclear energy.Speaking in a dinner banquet hosted by U...

50080 AfranAhlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Sheikh Nkansah Agyekum, National Imam of the Ghana Muslim Mission, has called on Muslims to ensure that peace and unity prevailed among them.He said Islam stood for peace and that anything short of peace ...

505 15 Energy minister warns against illegal sale of fuelThe minister of Energy, Sira Wally Ndow-Njie has warned staff of the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) involved in selling fuel belonging to the company to stop such acts.The ministe...

50126Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’adua is dead. He passed away on Wednesday night in the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, Abuja.His remains will be flown to his hometown, Katsina, Katsina State in the North-Western part of Nigeria early this mornin...

505 23Mr. Leo Igwe, West Africa representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union has called on the African Commission to urgently take steps to address many religion-related human rights abuses in Africa and to pressure African states to ...

501 37One of the leading foreign oil firms in Nigeria, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said the company is set to inaugurate the country’s biggest integrated oil and gas project in Gbaran-Ubie, Bayelsa State. The facility, according to the...